ArtAsiaPacific

For over 20 years, ArtAsiaPacific has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published in Hong Kong, with over 30 editorial desks worldwide. Our annual issue, the Almanac, is an alphabetical tour d'horizon of the 67-odd countries covered in ArtAsiaPacific, spanning Afghanistan to Vietnam. The Almanac also invites influential art world figures to comment on the major cutural events that have shaped the past 12 months. Now also available on the iPhone!

Abu Dhabi Art to Host Largest Fair to Date • 92 Galleries Participating in Landmark 15th Edition

Objectified Relations

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CONTRIBUTORS

Tsherin Sherpa on Urgen Dorje Sherpa

Taipei • Sticking close to home

NEWS ROUND UP

Israel-Gaza War Fractures Region

AWARDS

OBITUARIES

Art after Evidence

Who Runs the World?

Correction Point • For decades, Chinese art collectors have positioned Hong Kong as a major destination for secondary-market sales. But with China’s growth contracting in the year after its post-pandemic reopening, two major auction series at Sotheby’s and Phillips in Hong Kong in early October produced disappointing results for many bluechip modern and contemporary artworks. Is this a turning point in the market?

Demand for More, or Less? • Sydney, Seoul, Shenzhen, New York—the first week of September brought fairs to major cities around the world. Whether five fairs in four distinct geographies are either compatible or competitive remains to be seen, as major economies are struggling to recover their pre-pandemic balance and galleries are stretched by the demands to expand their collector base globally.

WORLDING ADVENTURES

DIVERGENT DICHOTOMIES

CICI WU • Of Light and Shadow

SUNG NEUNG KYUNG • More Beautiful When Botched

ON THE VERGE • The depiction of generational peril in Yu Hong’s painting The Ship of Fools

THE STORIES WE TELL • AN INTERVIEW WITH SIMONE FATTAL

KIM BEOM • I Can’t Hear You Screaming

MARK CHUNG

YEONDOO JUNG

ELYSA WENDI & LEE WAI-SHING

TROMARAMA

Treasures of a Drifter IDA EKBLAD

Tuan Andrew Nguyen Radiant Remembrance • New Museum

She could lie on her back and sink • Gus Fisher Gallery

After the Landscape Theory • Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

A One and a Two: Edward Yang Retrospective • Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Eunice Sanchez Sa Ilog, Nagtatagpo (On Rivers, Gathering) • West Gallery

signals … 瞬息 • Para Site

Jompet Kuswidananto Dream Express: Personalized History of Mysticism • Kohesi Initiatives

Matthew Krishanu On a Limb • Jhaveri Contemporary

Cengiz Çekil I Am Still Alive • Arter

Daido Moriyama Retrospective • C/O Berlin

Kader Attia & Mandy El-Sayegh Disfigurations • Lehmann Maupin

Maiko Jinushi Intimacies and Distances • Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

LOST FUTURES

HA MANH THANG • Order in Chaos

TREVOR YEUNG • Ecovoyeurism